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cn coin 6626

Connected to Type

CN Type 6708 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 311-280 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΛΥΚΟ
Design
Griffin lying right on club, left forepaw raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and closed beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΔ-ΗΡΙ-ΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Head of (youthful) Apollo, right, within linear square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Lyko... 🔍

Metrology
Denomination
Dichalkon 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
15 mm
Weight
3.65 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18246043

Provenience: 1822 Knobelsdorff - Vorbesitzer Knobelsdorff

Citation

Sestini, Lettere e dissertazioni numismatiche ossia descrizione di alcune medaglie rare del Museo Knobelsdorffiano 6, Berlino 1804 p. 16, nr. 4  ❐

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 114, nr. 123  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 108, nr. 220,,1  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 212, nr. 170-177 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 212, nr. 170-177 (c. 311-280 BC, dichalkon)  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 108, nr. 220 ❐

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